ONLINE UNESCO DICTIONARY
CHILDREN
In 1959, the United Nations General Assembly
adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Twenty years later, this
Magna Carta for children’s rights was still in
abeyance, if not entirely violated. In order to remind the world at large and
rally public opinion, 1979 was proclaimed International Year of the Child.
UNESCO issued a poster, The Boy with the Dove, the work of the Cuban painter
René Portocarrero. This gouache joins the
posters of Sonia Delaunay and Joan Miró in the
series Artists in Support of UNESCO’s Activities.
UNICEF:
Protecting and realizing children's rights
Understanding the Convention
on the Rights of the Child
Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of
the Child
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UN Convention on
the Rights of the Child
UNICEF USA "Child Survival" PSA (3:28)
New US Fund for UNICEF public service announcement, featuring UNICEF Ambassadors Danny Glover, Ralph Fiennes, Lucy Liu, Sarah Jessica Parker, Laurence Fishburne, Whoopi Goldberg
UNICEF: Release of the first World Malaria Report
UNICEF and the World Health Organization have launched the first
ever World Malaria Report, introduced by UNICEF's Executive Director Ann M. Veneman
Shirin Ebadi Visits Foster Elementary School (on literacy)